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Australian Broadcasting Corporation: ABC Science
This website is an excellent source of reliable information on a range of science-related topics in a variety of formats. It also includes lesson plans on a range of scientific concepts and model texts for teaching information reports and explanations.
BBC News
The BBC news website contains a host of digital resources to support the teaching of texts for informing and describing. The pages devoted to science and nature are particularly useful.
English for the Australian Curriculum
This collection of units of work deals with informative texts from early primary through secondary. In the early primary and primary resources, you’ll find examples of units on information reports of various kinds.
NSW Board of Studies Assessment Resource Centre
http://arc.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/go/stage-2/english/activities/information-report-on-an-animal
This website contains graded and annotated descriptive information reports written by students aged between eight and 10 years old. As part of a larger resource comprising work samples across the curriculum areas, it is useful for understanding the expectations of students at particular points in schooling (K–10), as well as the range of achievements that are evident.
Taronga Conservation Society: Taronga Zoo, Sydney
https://taronga.org.au/education
This website offers online information for students researching a range of rare and endangered animals. There are rich multimodal resources suitable for building students’ field knowledge in preparation for writing information reports, as well as for modelling aspects of the genre and language features. Many of the resources can be downloaded to print.
Victorian Teachers of English as a Second or Other Language (VicTESOL)
https://victesol.vic.edu.au/index.php/teaching-and-learning-cycle-project
Here is where you can find several videos of teachers implementing the teaching and learning cycle with EAL/D students (including extended footage of Rebekah and her colleague Barbara teaching descriptive writing).